Mikko Rapeli wrote (in a message from Monday 17) > Hi! > > I crashed my RedHat Linux 7.1 box once when viewing one of my handwritten web pages, >and > after some debugging is seems that bad html on Mozilla starts xfs font server >spinning > out of control. xfs eats all CPU time and memory after opening the page > with Mozilla, which seems to be asking for larger and larger fonts. > > Perhaps someone from xfree or mozilla lists can debug the details. > > There is a bug in Mozilla when viewing this kind of page, but xfs still > should not go crazy. I did not have time to install newer versions of Xfree, but at >least > http://www.xfree.org/security/ does not show a fix for this. > > Linux setup: > > $ uname -a > Linux lnx 2.4.2-2 #1 Sun Apr 8 20:41:30 EDT 2001 i686 unknown > > $ X -version > > XFree86 Version 4.0.3 / X Window System
Thanks for the report. I believe this is fixed in XFree86-current. I'd appreciate if you could find time to check against the xfs in XFree86 from CVS (See http://www.xfree86.org/cvs/). Regards, Matthieu Herrb
